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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2010
Peter Z. Anast, Sammamish, WA (US);
Rickie Hansken, Marysville, WA (US);
Peter Z. Anast, Sammamish, WA (US);
Rickie Hansken, Marysville, WA (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A system for supporting a load across non-intersecting beams each having a web depending from an upper chord with an upper surface generally parallel with a chordal plane includes at least one crossing member intersecting the beams at intersection loci. At each intersection locus the beam presents a channel receiving a crossing member in a nesting orientation in an installed orientation. The crossing member includes a support expanse configured for an abutting relation with the upper chord to present the upper surface and a top surface of the crossing member as coplanar in the installed orientation. The beam and the crossing member have aperture-pairs in register in the installed orientation. The apertures accommodate tension resisting members or compression resisting members coupled with the upper chord and traversing the crossing member for resisting tension or compression forces on the upper chord in the installed orientation.